The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's sixth novel. Published in 1999, it is a variation on the Orpheus/Eurydice myth with rock music replacing Orpheus' lyre. The myth works as a red thread from which the author sometimes strays, but to which he attaches an endless series of references. The book, while at its …
East, West is a 1994 anthology of short stories by Salman Rushdie. The book is divided into three main sections, entitled "East", "West", and "East, West", each section containing stories from their respective geographical areas. Though Rushdie himself never divulged the exact inspirations for his stories in East, …
This brilliant, fascinating, generous novel swarms with gorgeous young women both historical and imagined, beautiful queens and irresistible enchantresses...a sumptuous, impetuous mixture of history with fable. But in the end, of course, it is the hand of the master artist, past all explanation, that gives this book …
Geceyarısı Çocukları, Hint asıllı yazar Salman Rüşdi'nin romanıdır. Hindistan'ın bağımsızlığına kavuştuktan sonra yazılan yapıt, Hindistan yazınında bu özelliğinden dolayı önemli bir yer tutar. İlk baskısı 1981 yılında gerçekleşmiştir. Yazar romanın yazılışından 25 yıl sonra yeni bir önsöz eklemiştir. Hindistan'ın …